2017 is the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s Death; in commemoration,every intellectual magazine or/and review, every pseudo-intellectual rag, every faux intellectual blog is commenting on her. She was a recluse; she was as nuts as Emily Dickinson; she was a feminist; she was proto-feminist; she was anti-woman; she was a mouthpiece for the oppressive gentry; she was secretly married; she was poisoned. Jane Austen endures for one reason and one reason only; she is THE GREATEST WRITER in recorded history who believes in HAPPY ENDINGS. This Blogger is a big fan of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, with the caveat that if DARCY were not so phenomenally rich, ELIZABETH BENNET would not give him a second look. This Blogger’s favorite Austen novel is PERSUASION; who among us has not wanted to go back and revisit the true love they have rejected, waiting for something better, or despoiled, that true love waiting for something better? As long as Mankind needs to believe in HAPPY ENDINGS and SECO...